Ananya Roy is an Indian-origin academic whose work spans urban studies, international development, and questions of poverty, inequality, and global capitalism. She is widely cited for scholarship on cities of the Global South, informal urbanism, and the politics of development.
| Name | Ananya Roy |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian origin |
| Field | Urban studies, international development, geography |
| Profession | Academic, professor |
Roy is recognised as a scholar working at the intersection of urban planning, social welfare, and geography. Her research engages with how cities are shaped by poverty, displacement, finance, and policy, with particular attention to South Asia.
Her scholarly contributions include studies of urban poverty and informality, the workings of international development institutions, and critical analyses of how knowledge about the Global South is produced. She has written on the relationship between planning practice and questions of inclusion, exclusion, and rights to the city.
Roy is associated with efforts to reorient urban theory by foregrounding cities of the Global South as sites of theoretical innovation rather than merely as case studies. Her writing has been influential in planning curricula and in debates on poverty, development, and urban governance.